ZURAWICA MARSHALLING YARD AND ADJOINING INSTALLATIONS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009500470008-2
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 7, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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The zau,in goods trsansloadod here are minino products, grain, foodstuffs, oil
and"l gasoline by--products, heavy and light industry products, etc.
7. Transhipment of oil products takes place on separate platforms, in the area
controlled by the Center for the Oil Industry(C. ,N,) adjoining the marshalling
yard.
F The yard has its own strong detachment of R ,ilimay Guards (Straz Kolejowe3 ), a U.130
unit for its exclusive use, and a Customs Office
9. A large foundry is to be constructed, within the framework of the Six-Year.-Plan,
on a site adjoining the marshalling 17ard. Supplied with iron ore from the USSR,
the foundry's protraction will be sent to metallurgical plants in Poland. A
Polish-Soviet Commission inspected. the site in 1950, and in 1951, owners of
land in I3olestraszyce and some in Wyszatyce were forbidden to till and sow on
sr~acial ~r-3;aar1 eri areas. Preliminary work in 1951 consisted of Laying standard
There ai?e three very large, and one siaaa1.ler, lloading is a special platform., the 1rirgest, for transloading of ore, and another, slightly
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and "Es ,arch Theso shads are used for both Polish
Soviet locomotives. 'Lhe latter, are also overhauled there. Russian gauge
tracks lead up to the sheds.
---p -.--d u 1d1.Ly s.1.anaara ana Ku sian gauge, cover far in excess
Of one kilometer in the direction of ,the villages of tdyszatyce and Solestraszyce,
The 4ussian gauge track comes only frol~a the i ection of 1iow? via Przemysl and
7urawiaa Dolna as far. .as the marsha??ling yard, where it terminates. 7nfox ,nt
is absolutely certain that there is o Russ .an gauge track at present from
Prz+;rsl to. '...'Wroclaw via Krakow and Katowice.:
There are three large locomotive ' sheds, and some of the biggest railway workshops
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5. The marshalling yard has a power station which is used exclusively for its own
requirements
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and Russian gauge tracks, No earthworks had been started before August 1951.
I.P. A large area near the marshalling yard has been surrounded by a wall three
meters high, with large watchtowers at the corners. Within the enclosure nine "large"
tanks are already in commission and another nine are under construction.
he C.P.N. has its on railway siding here, with standard and Russian gauge
tracks. Sovi,t trains with oil products drive straight up to the tanks and
v 0p directly into the tanks. The C.P.N. area is guarded by a special Industrial
Guards detachment and is under the protection of the U.B. units stationed in
the r-irshe.I.ling yard.
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